/etc/udev/rules.d/70-persistent-net.rules

[David A. Bandel]

On Dec 31, 2007 2:32 PM, Matthew Carpenter
<mcarpenter at intelguardians.com> wrote:
> fyi,
>
> For those of you who may wish to build an ubuntu system with the hard-drive
> in one machine, then move it to another (it works rather well, actually), or
> if you simply want to manipulate how your network interfaces show up....
>
> Instead of the "iftab" file which identifies which MAC address should be
> which interface...  ubuntu recently modified this to place the setup directly
> into a udev config file...
>
> /etc/udev/rules.d/70-persistent-net.rules

Debian has been using this for some time now.  Change out an ethernet
card and you get another interface name, not eth0 again (unless you
"correct" this rules file).

Ciao,

David A. Bandel
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